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CALADIUM GRANDIFOLIUM. LARGE- 
LEAVED CALADIUM, 
Class and Order. 
Monezcia PoLyANDRIA. 
Generic Character. 
Mase. Cal.o. Cor. 0. Anthere peltate, multiloculares, 
in spicam ad apices spadicis composite. 
Fem. Cal.o. Cor. 0. Germina ad basin spadicis in- 
serta. Styluso. Bacca ]-locularis, polysperma. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Caxapium grandifolium; caulescens radicans, foliis cordato- 
sagittatis, spadice spatham cucullato-ovatum equante. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p.490. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 312. 
Arum grandifolium ; caulescens radicans, foliis cordato- 
hastatis, acutis petiolis teretibus. Jacg. Hort. Schoénb. 
2. p. 34. t. 189. | 
The leaves of this plant are so large, that we could only 
give a very much diminished figure of one of them, which 
measured above two feet in length and fifteen inches across, 
supported on a footstalk a foot and a half long, rounded, 
and inserted into the edge of the wide nearly semicircular 
sinus of the Leaf, which is cordate-sagittate, or heart arrow 
shaped, with the hind lobes spreading and obtuse ; the 
point very slender and weak ; margin undulated but entire, 
of a deep shining green on the upper surface, and pale 
with large raised purple veins on the under. Spathe (which . 
is represented of the natural size) nearly sessile, ovate- 
acuminate, inflated and crimson at the base, contracted in 
the middle, and expanded at the upper part into a white, 
oval hood. Spadix nearly the length of the spathe, having — 
the female organs at the base, the male above, and towards 
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